Authors Note: Okay, I have so many people to thank, it's kind of hard to keep track, lol. Thank you to cartoongal11, SymmetryGirl, Cocoshayla and EvilVampireDucky for reviewing the story so far, and also to everyone who favorited and added this story to their Story Alerts. It means so much to know that you all love this story as much as I do! I have 8 chapters so far and I'll be publishing the next one tomorrow (December 19th) but after that, it'll update regularly like it does on Quizilla, so twice a month and I will be updating it in January.

I also have a few unpublished stories that I will most-likely publish on FF first, so you should all feel honored, lol. The won't be Black Butler, but if you like Ouran High School Host Club, -man, Harry Potter and Soul Eater, please check them out! I realized after a while that I was spelling "Bocchan" wrong, lol, so I've corrected it in the following chapters.


She didn't believe it when Ciel told her what had happened, how could she have been stabbed while she was in town with Grell? Wasn't it a butler's job to take care of his mistress? She didn't believe it until she was escourted to the church with her cousin Elizabeth and her mother, Marchioness Francis Middleford.

Her blood turned cold when she saw Angelina laying peacefully in the coffin, dressed with little to no make up, plain clothes and white flowers, a rosary in her hands. Lila gingerly touched her hand and flinched back at the cold.

Her eyes filled with tears and she ran down the aisle and out of the church. Where was she going? It didn't matter, anywhere was better then this church, where her mother lay, cold as ice and never to open her eyes and smile down at Lila any more.

Another sob broke free as she continued running, only stopping when she ran into a wall, or, what she thought was a wall, until a pair of arms wrapped around her waist and held her to a chest. She breathed in the scent of tea leaves and cinnamon, this was Sebastian, and she buried her face in his chest and cried.

Ciel walked past her and into the church, holding a long red dress that she recognized as Angelina's favorite from her armoire at home. She didn't even wonder how Ciel got it as he walked down the aisle and sat next to her coffin.

He layed the dress over her, and took the red rose from his lapel and put it in her hair, before pressing his lips to her forehead. Sebastian led Lila back to a carriage and left her there to cry while he went back to Ciel. Almost ten minutes later they came back and Ciel sat in the carriage with Lila, holding her hand in his, while Sebastian steered.

After a while, Lila stopped sobbing, though she did nothing to stop the tears in her eyes from falling. She ocasionally sniffled, and whenever she did, Ciel's grip on her hand tightened slightly. Sebastian drove back to Ciel's townhouse, sometime during the ride, however, Lila fell into an uneasy sleep.

Sebastian helped his master down from the carriage before he took Lila, cradling her in his arms and led the way to the front door, he unlocked it and allowed Ciel to enter before he did, and shut the door behind him.

"Put her in the guest room Sebastian. Don't undress her." Ciel added. Sebastian did as his master instructed and did not undress her as he placed her carefully onto the bed she'd been staying in while she was here with Angelina and Lau during the Jack the Ripper case, but before he left, he took the time to gaze upon her.

She was still beautiful, even with tear tracks on her cheeks and slightly red eyes. He still did not understand how a simple human could posess such beauty, but he did not question it. He wiped the tears from her cheeks, and swiftly planted a kiss on her forehead before he tucked her into bed and left for the drawing room, where he knew Ciel would be.

Sebastian immediately prepared some tea and scones while Ciel watched him from his arm chair. Sebastian handed him a tea cup and watched as he took a small sip. "May I ask a question, Bocchan?" Without speaking Ciel nodded.

"Why did you not tell Lady Lila what really happened?" Ciel took another sip and set his tea-cup and saucer on the end-table. "I thought that would have been obvious, Sebastian. Do you truely think she would believe me, without the shinigami as proof? I technically told her the truth, Madam Red was stabbed, I just never mention that her butler was her murderer."

"And what will you say if she asks such a question?"

Ciel didn't answer, instead, he bit into a scone. "We'll be leaving the townhouse soon, please prepare the carriage." Sebastian stared at Ciel for a mere second before he bent down in a bow. "Yes sir." He left Ciel in the drawing room and went up stairs to gather the belongings he knew Ciel wouldn't leave behind.

It was relatively quiet, but this was how Sebastian liked it. It gave him time to think, though he had all the time in the world, he didn't need to sleep and he often got a break during the night when Ciel slept. In a way, it made sense when Ciel said that he didn't want Lila to know what really happened to Lady Durless, but Lila was a curious person, and if she knew Sebastian and Ciel were with Lady Durless when she died, she would no doubt ask questions and what were they to say?

And an even more important matter, what would be of Sebastian and Lila? She was his soulmate and he would have her, but what would happen when he tried to accomplish this task? Sebastian was no human and Lila was not a demon, he didn't understand how a demon could have a human as their soulmate, but he supposed he would just let things unfold, Lila just lost her mother and surely she would not want to think about things like intimacy with demon butlers at the moment.

As long as she was close by him, that would be enough for the moment.

Lila woke up to find that she was still in the carriage with Ciel, but there were things around them, clothing and other items that looked like they came from Ciel's townhouse. Ciel was sitting in the seat oposite to her, and he was sleeping, so Lila laid her head back down on the seat and snuggled into the velvet fabric before closing her eyes and drifting back to sleep.

When she woke up again, she was in an unfamiliar bedroom alone. She didn't bother to look at her surroundings before she got out of bed and stepped into the hallway. She recognized the wallpaper from Ciel's manor so she relaxed a little as she walked around looking for her cousin.

It was surprisingly quiet, there were no signs of life in the manor at all, Lila considered Ciel's servant, Finny, Meirin and Bard to be around and making a lot of noise like the first day she met them. With a small sigh, she began walking to the right, where she knew the foyer to be.

And five minutes later, she found it, thought it appeared to be abandoned too. "Where is everyone?" Lila asked herself. She turned on her heel, ready to retreat back to the room she woke up in when a loud explosion made her cry out in surprise.

She could smell the smoke and quickly ran off towards the scent, realizing that the smell must be coming from the kitchen. She threw open the doors and coughed at the amount of smoke that drifted her way and filled her lungs.

"Wh-what happened in here!" She didn't even get an answered back before a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist and lifted her like she was a princess. She could not see, due to the smoke, but she knew she was being carried off.

"Please wait in the lounge while I clean up this mess, Lady Lila." Sebastian whispered, his long black fringe touched against her cheek causing her to shiver and blush. He put Lila down in a comfortable arm chair and before long, Sebastian returned, wiping his gloved hands as he did so.

"It's good to see that you're awake, Bocchan asked to see you when you were well enough, so I shall escourt you to his office. Please follow me." Lila quickly stood up and followed Sebastian up the stairs and down several hallways until he stopped and knocked three times on a door.

"Bocchan? Lady Lila is awake."

"Send her in," Ciel's voice could barely be heard from behind the door, but Sebastian opened the door and allowed Lila to go inside before he followed and shut the door behind him. Ciel was sitting with his back facing them, but he turned around in his chair after he told Lila to take a seat.

"How are you feeling?" Was the first thing Ciel asked.

"I'm alright." Lila murmured.

"I'm under the impression that you have no other family besides Madam Red, she explained before that you were orphaned and she adopted you. Since she is now... and Baron's family is... at any rate, I want you to live in my manor."

Lila bit her lip. "If I do live here... I want you to employ me as a maid." Ciel's one visable blue eye widened for a brief second. "You what?"

"I was not born of noble blood, and since Mother is dead, I am no longer a Lady. I wish to be employed as a maid, like Meirin." Lila spoke quietly, but with determination. Her head was down and her eyes were locked on her bare feet, so she didn't see the look that Ciel gave Sebastian before he nodded.

"Alright, Lila. I'll employ you, but you will not be a maid. You will be my personal care-taker, and help Sebastian with his task of taking care of me." Lila thought for a moment before she smiled. "Yes. Thank you Ciel- I-I mean, Bocchan." She blushed a little.

Ciel's face cracked a tiny smile before he regained his composure.

"I will show you around the manor, Lila." Sebastian grinned.

"Meirin will show her around the manor," Ciel corrected, staring at Sebastian intensly. "I need to discuss something with you Sebastian. Meirin will be the person breaking all the dishes, so if you follow the sound of crashes, you should find her easily."

Lila nodded and bowed before she left the room. As soon as she shut Ciel's office door, the sound of shattering glass made her smile softly and she took a left down the hall and down the staircase.

"Do you know why I allowed Lila to live here, Sebastian?" Ciel asked looking at his demon butler from the other side of the desk. Sebastian stood like a statue, stiff and stoic and he did not answer. "It's because of you." He continued, "I know you will devore my soul when my wish is granted, but I don't doubt that will not be for a while. Maybe a few years, in fact. It must be frustrating to be tied down to a human for a while, and as you've said, Lila is your soulmate."

"I will allow you to persue Lila now that she is an employee. She may be Madam Red's daughter, but she was adopted. She is my relative, to an extent."

"If she was a blood relative, would you have allowed me to persue her, Bocchan?" Sebastian asked with much amusement.

"No." Ciel answered at once.